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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1925, Page 4

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the dairying indgstuy. (Special to “Guardian”.) WELLINGTON, August ill. Odl! can scarcely glance through a newspaper just now without coining across extensive references to the Dominion's dairying industry, and naturally they are all appreciative, for the dairying industry is a basic one in New Zealand, that is our prosperity is wrapped up in it. The export ol butler from New Zealand lor the twelve months was about (>o,Ov'l! tons, and the exports of Australian butter approximately the same. I welvo months ago many people were predieting disaster for the dairying industry for it was tbrought that Siberia would come io the front with it rush. ’1 he potentialities of Siberia as a producer of butter are great, but at the moment our greatest competitor is the Commonwealth. Given ample raintall tie Australian production would expand rapidlv. Good rains have fallen in Australia. and in the new season ot 19252(5 there will be lul l her expansion. Australian butter is now subject to Government supervision and inspection. The grading is compulsory and on a Letter scale than hitherto, consequently there will he in this season a great deal of Australian blitter ot high quality v hieli " ill come into direct competition with the -Vow Zealand product. There is scone for great development in Siberia and had the country a Government of sane men progress would he rapid. According to an o'lii ial American journal within the last two years there lists been a notable recovery in the number ol tows in llr.ssia as well as in the exportation ot flutter from Siberia. Ihe statistics issued by the International Institute of Agriculture gives tlie number of cows in 1!;Iti in the present territory of tli • I'niun of Socialist-Soviet Republic as J:l,2:5f.10(1, with a total of 50.1i51.800 rattle. Hv 1021 t' e total number of cattle had increased to about 85 per lent and the number of cows to fill per (cut of the number in 101(1. Ibe increase in the number ot cows has therefore been proportionately greater than' in the total cattle during recent years. Exportation ol butter, which had been discontinued entirely in 1913 was resumed in 1922 with the shipment to Great Britain of somewhat less than a million pounds. In 102! the quantity ot butter exported increased considerably. The quality also of the exported product improved, being in no way inferior to Ibc pre-war article. In 1912-II the quantity ol butter produced in Russia was :t:l!).00(l.(lil0!b, of which about one-halt was exported. The quantity of butter manufactured in the summer of 192! represented about 20 per_ cent ol the pre-war output, and this summer the output was expected to reach >) per cent., luii whether it has rc-a: lie l that level will not be known tiinil the statistic:. are available. 11l order to extend the butler industry further. a special committee "as established in Russia in duly. 1021. lo organise the manufacture, purchase and export ol butter. Tliis body, which appears to be in the nature of a control board, is operating in Siberia as well as in theprincipal lnil'ter producing areas oi European Russia. Siberia is not a menace to New Zealand Diet it may ceomo so in the not distniu lllture EERORE AND FROZEN MEAT. It is well known that the Cumin- it has in the past two \ of nan • developed a (Tits!.! •ruble trade in I nr: ci meat, i.e-.ily fr.a:. n beef, ami 11 .■ i . i i par:l-itlar a’ip.. : ..... mha doe remarkably veil. In 1:122 Ice import so. I n;:.a n oval into ! Inly lar ih.e army, navy and t‘-e puldi • amounted to 15.(.00 toms, and in 1.T2 the quantity ini.' ! rted increased n> i .50,11(10 t ns were partis ularlv a.-live, dec 'largely l> i| ~ r o.ioval of ;be Cusl nuts duty. : 11 i partly io lie biro price oi ii —> peat. An it.die n paper in re’, tea in;., Ihet! •- \cb; hi a* 111 in !'••• trad”, stale- ti at List fro; ,p oca; g : ev. -i.adily in f.s i ! oi-- v. iti) ' lie nubile and 11 • ■.rah' . ? I gain -.1 fat our v. i;!i pr.ietie - iiy ell (•!:•• vs i i the ill." ion. ;.od it-. « keenness m-ui d for it a wid • ill. Ic o| friends. Italy’s supplies were n 11. .a A" olaiis. lir.V/.ii eel ii " •\r» .uitiee. end particularly iron) the but .)-. New /calami sent a litil- an ! ii is -.iTi.'d 1 1,at a small aliipmcnt is gniiig forward in the course ol a week nr two to Ic lauded at Genoa. In ii>22 Messrs Wed Mil and to were operating all over Italy, aml as \ osleys hold a controlling interest in Weddell and Co., it is probable that this him is i oanoiisible for shipment- being obtained from Australia and New Zealand. Weddells bate well organised (he inland market- and on a large siahu i tabli-hing stores io suit the rcipiire s of tie- various districts. main point of intercut for Xetv Zealand in this i, that il keeps l.ondi.n short of herd' and thus i'ono.s consumer,, to turn to mutton and lamb. • ( ontinental cmmtries are certain to

make efforts to n eel, ilieir requirement. from within their own borders or from their colonies. k ranee i- developing the cattle industry in .Madagascar and Italy is likely to do the same in Tripoli.